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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 79,387 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.04 avg rating — 13,137 ratings
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
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4.10 avg rating — 12,515 ratings
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The Wild Birds
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3.97 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Life of Birds
by
4.41 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
by
4.14 avg rating — 3,673 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 53,762 ratings
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Mind of the Raven
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4.01 avg rating — 4,133 ratings
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
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4.29 avg rating — 2,639 ratings
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
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4.01 avg rating — 34,023 ratings
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
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4.19 avg rating — 6,114 ratings
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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3.95 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic & the Endangered
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4.16 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
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That Quail, Robert
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4.33 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
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4.27 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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The Sibley Guide to Birds
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4.70 avg rating — 2,564 ratings
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
by
4.04 avg rating — 5,941 ratings
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,661 ratings
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
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4.07 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
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4.10 avg rating — 10,034 ratings
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The Penguin Lessons
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4.13 avg rating — 15,585 ratings
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Owls in the Family
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4.11 avg rating — 5,787 ratings
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The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
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4.45 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
by
4.16 avg rating — 560 ratings
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
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4.11 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
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Corvus: A Life with Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Ravens in Winter
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4.17 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
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3.91 avg rating — 2,081 ratings
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The Snow Goose
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4.15 avg rating — 5,496 ratings
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Make Way for Ducklings
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4.25 avg rating — 90,549 ratings
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Ornithology
by
4.33 avg rating — 238 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by
4.17 avg rating — 62,268 ratings
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The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live
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4.08 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
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3.75 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
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4.12 avg rating — 947 ratings
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
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4.10 avg rating — 998 ratings
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
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4.21 avg rating — 664 ratings
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My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 83,746 ratings
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The Goshawk
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3.82 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
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The Ugly Duckling
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4.12 avg rating — 43,173 ratings
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The Meaning of Birds
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4.21 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
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4.09 avg rating — 361 ratings
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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4.14 avg rating — 6,476 ratings
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Enslaved by Ducks
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3.48 avg rating — 3,372 ratings
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Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
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4.18 avg rating — 2,282 ratings
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Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,459 ratings
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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4.23 avg rating — 4,015 ratings
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Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
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4.17 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
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3.88 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
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4.43 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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Mozart's Starling
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3.96 avg rating — 3,484 ratings
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Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names
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3.89 avg rating — 316 ratings
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The Geese of Beaver Bog
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4.01 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Rarest Bird in the World: The Search for the Nechisar Nightjar
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3.20 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Beak of the Moon
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4.14 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
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4.22 avg rating — 451 ratings
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
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4.67 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds
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4.43 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
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3.85 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
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4.06 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
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3.83 avg rating — 3,162 ratings
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A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
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4.17 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
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4.42 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures
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4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition
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4.19 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
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4.41 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
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3.80 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife
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3.87 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Off the Grid (Joe Pickett, #16)
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4.30 avg rating — 23,535 ratings
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A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
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4.08 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
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3.75 avg rating — 581 ratings
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The Wren: A Biography
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4.20 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Last of the Curlews
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4.20 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Owl Babies
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4.21 avg rating — 17,658 ratings
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Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
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4.39 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart
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3.55 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
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3.76 avg rating — 787 ratings
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King Solomon's Ring
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4.13 avg rating — 4,502 ratings
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Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
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3.99 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
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4.07 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
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4.07 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
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4.18 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Owls: Our Most Enchanting Bird
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4.18 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction
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4.57 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Migrations
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4.12 avg rating — 94,195 ratings
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Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
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3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family
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3.96 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
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3.67 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
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4.47 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
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4.16 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season With The Wild Turkey
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4.48 avg rating — 546 ratings
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The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
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4.21 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Rare Birds of North America
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4.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Reluctant Twitcher: A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
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3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Love and Ordinary Creatures
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3.45 avg rating — 51 ratings
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When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer
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4.30 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Birds in Fall
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3.93 avg rating — 1,413 ratings
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Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals
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4.25 avg rating — 165 ratings
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I've made a specific list specifically for juvenile audiences:
Young Ornithologists: Bird Watching, Falconry, etc. (Juvenile)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
I'm already out of votes and could use some help with adding in overflow (in the comment section). :) Hoping a fellow birder can help.